1842.] ° THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE, 343 
for the perpone. of taking oat pousideration the disturbed 
state of ae nty, and ¢ gest to Government such 
continue to publi lists of fresh ou S, and state that 
crime in the Nor wheat paticulriy = - logan 9 
baronies, is still rife eve In the southern 
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the party. The bod of about 
mile distant foe where the eal ed ook place, his death 
hay ering been caused by a bayonet wound inflicted by the 
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peeing: the advance o the season, emigration is still 
proceeding wit in the commen nt 
his 
e the opening of the present om 13 vessels have 
sailed for Quebec, - John’s, and Prince Edward’s Island, 
arrying out about 3,500 passen i? gia vessels have 
Stas sailed for the ‘itited States, with three or four hun- 
dred passengers 
SCOTLAND. 
yan oy A serious accident, fortunately not at- 
tended with fatal consequences, occurred a few days since 
at the sate of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Rai 
si 
ed; and the momentum o fe ain overpowering 
the means of resistance in the hands of ins ‘* breaksman,’ 
the trucks ran down the declivity with great velocity. 
Fortunately nothing was in the wa d the train was 
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a serious fire h edi in the woods of Ardgowan oie 
which nearly 100 a Had "of fine young planting have been 
Pe. idmarnock.—Cons st , eae has for some 
ome past prevailed amo e labouring poor of this 
e 0 tate of tra n 
giving 
Aha and the applications are yery numerous. Collections 
ve been made in all the churches for this purpose, and 
a considerable sum of m already been rai 
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value 
at between 50,0002. and 60, 0002, 
lately nt from this eee Lords 
eos ves of this esul ir 
Lordships have scare 3002, which, it is understood, will 
; Pringipally, if not Shelly, em mployed in finishing the im- 
begun on the ee dalene-yard. 
at present He w 
after Fila te insensible Ritwcen con 
lodgings, where medical aid 
ceording 1 he was 
he last accounts 
relief of the pate of this town and neighbourhood, the | settlement is to be modified, by which the poor may be 
distressed state which has been referred to in former relieved in parishes where they may happen to be resi- 
Numbers of this tsa amount to nearly 25,0002. dent. Parish apprentices are to have protective regula- 
we and local acts are not to be interfered with. aa 
THEATRICALS. re the main features of the new bill, which Sir J.G 
Drury Lane.—The different theatres of the Metropo- rid d was calculated, in his sincere conviction ‘nd 
lis, as usual in the Whitsun week, have proved an attrac- | belief, to provide for the poor and needy, and to produce 
tion eat number of visitors. At bi is theatre | great ‘advan ntage to the community at lar, arge. 
‘* Macbeth 5 ars “ Hamlet,’’ with the of § hele New South Wales.—Two retirns of some interest, a8 
a vere a the play of “The Strangers ’ with t elating to this colony, have recently published by 
of ‘** Sonnambula,” were pro In the sottet the H f Co s. The first shows that of 118,592 
the pit of pyeam was pong with minsiaeeelile success | Migrants from the Uni ngdom during the past year, 
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also been performed, vate the entertainments have given | number 22,752 were enabled to emigrate by means of 
satisfaction to crowded houses, have = Fertormentet at this | bounties payable in New South Wales, and 4,034 defrayed 
theatre close for he season sls ev their passage from other sources, From the second return 
=Moza: ¢ wellknown opera “ Die | it appears that of 56 millions of pounds weight of sheep 
Zau erflate was produced oy the German Company at | 2nd lambs’ wool imported into the United Kingdom in 
this hadite on y3 ab e Heinefeter performing | 184], eight — of pounds was the produce of New 
the part of Ponkie, Mada Schodel th of Die Kénigin | Sou th Wales € aggregate quantity imported into this 
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was full, and the as appeared to be much gratified | Kingdom, to all parts Fi, wo nid, aid not exceed a 
wit ts the entertainm 4 declared eat of 5,748,6 
Ish Oprer rp -—The chief feature in the} Bank Returns. "The aia en gty of es average 
pe dicted at thi is Theatre ‘this week has been the revi ival | general circulat of the kingdom, for the four wee’ 
of a little piece called the “ Picturesque and Bea utiful,” | ending the 2d ult., ore with ah for bes sth ov 
which has not been pla yed for several years. The intro- present a decrease of 587,248/. e thus ap- 
duction vidi ‘ited ¢ vant representa picture of | portioned :—The Bank of England, 220,000. ‘the differ- 
Mary Queen of Scots Sonaitede d the chief attraction in | ence between 16,674,000/. and 16,894,000. Private 
the Rerecr se — red to on neral antistuction: Banks in England, 10,405/.; the difference between 
HayYMARKET. — here has bem no novelty at this  yekipng and 5,299,455/. The Private and Joint-stock 
* e n Scotland erence between 
of Lyons,” which has been acting for some time ~ a 2,670,2907, and 2,811,109/.. The Bank of Ireland 
considerable success, and in whi ch Mr, and M 114,625/.; the difference between 3,074,1257. and 
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theatre have been a new eque military drama, in | which has to be deducted an increase of 46,6701. in the 
four acts, entitled ‘ Marat the Paaekie General, Prince, | circulation of the English Joint-stock Banks, the differ. 
and King.” The career of this soldier of fortune is well | ence between 3,047,656/. and 2,990,986/. The bullion in 
adapted for melodramatic display, and the spenints, which | the Bank of England continues steadily to ew Bone ng 
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much applause. The other —— ents om of | ow, Aberdeen and Dundee ; in Ireland, Belfast, Cork, and 
scenes in the circle, anda c drama, i in two » called Dublin. The returns for these places are as follows :— 
“The Sprig of See, ae of which were well eistved London, 2,405 vessels, 598,554 tons ; Liverpool, 1,097 ¥ 
by a crowded audie 307,852 t.; pavonsties 1,143 y., 259,571 t.; Glasgow, 662v., 
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Misellancans. Dublin, 134 v., 23,072 t. Total for England, 
The ing are the main cha- 2,033,345 t.; Scotland, 2,261 v., es tosis. 
racteristics of oe Ante bill Pate is now in the House of 1,037 v., 165,969 t.; and for the w of the United 
ommons, and which was ato in by Sir J. Graham | Kingdom, Sein. the Pog Tdands, 14,416 v., and 
last week. The Poor-law Commission is to be continued 2,668,732 t. : 
for five years. This continuance Sir J. Gri , stated, et 
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perience of its working, and the necessity of the Com- anes nod ‘had made «match st asi third Moe ee 
mission, to the effectual working out the law. Sir J. Sareea fr for ~~ cr " a part of the turnpike road between 
: = uddersfield an ead, Each the 
Graham added that the primary object t of the Commission Siiectontume semanas ae eda hentia i, - with 
is not, as ow supposed, to provide for the indis okée, and brought this action t $0 seebeur Wick his Secon The 
criminate and inflexible administration of the law, but to | case having come on for trial before the Under-Sheriff for York. 
d he 
3 ot eh ba na pote announced that the entir 
i Contributions raised at home and abroad rhe the 
ensure the safe and efficient scabies of the law, by ro. pede a — was aes to te Row ent tha gd 15!. 
viding ee, Sit in its administration where circum- owever; gives e defendant’s counsel to move 
th Court sateen. ta ged a nonsuit, the ground, 
stances different, and securing uniformity: where poe mi , the ie seit hed ft th io 
hevhinetatins are Gute, The number of assistant com- — and that th the pl _— — ule had snipe entitled to 
sent, i imi i i / recover, Upon a former occasion the rule ad en obtain ed, 
missioners is to be limited to nine, in sane er of - pr sas eubstqoentiy vr edieret i 
ae ae exigen first; that therace being for mony ast. ,was vr Fo sum than y 
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entirely, of the Gilbert ae ‘se unions are few in | than 502. It was also content ed in a same place, that a race 
number ; they are in scare localities ; they interfere | Upon a common turnpike-road was illegal even at the common 
ith the harmonious working of the Poor-law; and. their | if, naccnne’ ented. Aether eee hee 
principle is opposed to the characterising principle of the cations. With regard to the first point, his Lordship referred toa 
Poor-law Amendment Act. In the Gilkert Unions, it is ithe which had occurred in the Court of Common Pleas, in which 
4 Bed ‘ ered 
7 > L cases, a e. ou 
is the aged, the sick, - “4 e estitute, who — Fed be nr inconvenient, and, in the majority of instances, be actually 
provided for: Under. oorlaw.A there eg e could not, however, nesta that it was im ie 
is no rigid prohibition Py fader relief. The an shar a pti ie Such a time, and ta tic haere erace pai 
which relief is administered furnishes no less than sev safe an ram ‘Asthe r ringgtes present case n 
exceptions, which boards of i i t any | run, the Court co tnet presume that if it had taken place it 
ve Se comiitads can give out-door relie nd have been attended with such a want of precaution as to 
Hoos the 2 Porat enna sepert ot fhe Poor-lay Com: | coche match was hit a cline eek ee 
mission, it appears that during the last year upwards pe the speed of the — ae gh of eee be much less 
million. of i ndividuals received relief, of whom only 159, beer the form peri t MI no gies oo ne ge eS neh whieh al preg Ag 
ecided upon the consideration e w allows, with 
were rélieved in workhouses. In addition to the great certain limitations, races of every Kind to be run in any 
of th we and. mstruing. these latter’ 
where they may ha Tha Ae 
bl easy ae reir ‘ather of ® | sundry documents. ; wk throug h the 
rgea e child pe be imprisoned for three ths Sexpettion,” ae naee eens to wo! — ~ 
he has no goods to ge imprisoned fo. th a Se 
